Leora M. (Alderman) Hanson (1903-1994)

ALDERMAN, HANSON, KOPF, ERICKSON, MILLER, MULFORD, GARDNER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/19/2013 at 22:15:43

From Nevada Journal January 1994

Leora M. Hanson
June 18, 1903 to Jan. 6, 1994

Leora M. Hanson, 90, of Rolling Green Village, Nevada, died of heart failure at Mary Greeley Medical Center, Ames.

She was born in rural Nevada to Floyd and Sarah (Kopf) Alderman. She married Lester Hanson on Feb 15, 1922, at her home in rural Nevada. She was a lifetime resident of Nevada and a member of the Nevada United Methodist Church. She was a homemaker.

Survivors include her daughter Kathleen Erickson of Cambridge; her grandchild, Michele Miller of Norwalk; and two great-grandchildren, Carrie and Katie Mulford of Norwalk.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1965; her sister, Junia Gardner; and two brothers Maurice Alderman and the Rev. Gordon Alderman.

Funeral services were held Jan. 10 at Cooper-Ryan Funeral Home, Nevada, with the Rev. James King officiating. Burial was in the Nevada Municipal Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Nevada United Methodist Church.